Micro project 3 part 2

I feel that my past is darker than most people's.  I have a lot of skeletons in my closet I guess you could say. That is why I chose this picture as a background, it comes from the darkness.  It comes from my favorite game, and basically the people living there were turned to ash in the blink of an eye, and now are fixated in the same pose when they died.  Even though this travesty happened in the games universe, the people keep moving forward.  I guess what I was trying to go for was even though what happened there was bad, like things that happen to everyone, you gotta keep moving forward.  Everyone makes mistakes, some larger than others, and it can haunt you for the rest of your life.  But you need to know that it's history, and even though you cannot changed what happened, you can grow and learn from it.  That is what I'm about, moving forward, and I like to think this is symbolized with the dawn rising in the background.  I added a few things, such as a broken can of diet coke, a broken iPod, a flexpen, the crimson omen (from the game), and a cross necklace.  Now, I feel that this picture sums me up fairly well, but it looks like I would be emo.  This is not the case.  If someone were to see me, and see this, they would not believe I made this.  I don't think it would let the viewer know that I am social and outgoing, and generally, fairly happy with who I am now.  But it does tell the viewer what got me through rough times; to keep moving forward.

Mp 3 things i bring to class

Picutre #1: My Pea Coat:  I bring my coat to class every day because it is fairly cold outside.  It is also a gift my father gave to me when I was younger, and have worn it ever since.

2 words: "homey warmth"

Picture #2: My Sperry's:  I bought Sperry's with my big brother at the beginning of the school year because he said I do not look "fratty" enough.  Wasn't exactly sure if I should take that as a compliment or an insult.  Either way, jokes on him because I use them pretty much every day.

2 words: "sock-less shoes"

Picture #3:  My Backpack:  I bring my backpack to every one of my classes exactly like everyone else that goes to school.  It is a very useful tool with carrying anything I might need, including my books and laptop.  

2 words: "Life savor"

Picture #4:  My phone: A cell phone is a very useful object.  You can communicate with people from all over the world with it, and being from Minnesota, it's great that I can still talk with anyone from back home at any time I would like or need to.  

2 words: "Bridging gaps"

Picture #5:  Diet Coke:  I usually, but not always bring some form of drink to classes, usually diet coke.  Being a diabetic, I really shouldn't drink regular soda or other beverages with carbohydrates in them since they will drive my blood sugar up.  So now, when I drink soda, I have diet.  Anyway, it can be helpful if I get  thirsty during class.

2 words:  "thirst quencher"

Picture #6:  Gears of War belt buckle:  One of my favorite games is Gears of War.  I like to think I'm pretty good at it, but since I like it so much when I saw this belt buckle for sale I bought it.  I have worn it to class just about every day since I bought it, and I think it's pretty cool.

2 words: "badass buckle"

Picture #7:  Insulin:  I bring my insulin almost everywhere I go, since I need it to eat food with carbohydrates.  It is important that I keep it on me, because if my blood sugar goes too high for an extended amount of time, it can cause serious damage to my body.

2 words: "life support:

Picture #8:  My cross: I wear my cross around my neck every day.  Not only does it look cool, but it also reflects what I personally believe in.  

2 words: "Higher power"

Picture #9:  Chewing gum:  I bring gum with me literally everywhere I go.  I am a surprisingly self-conscious person, and am concerned about how my hair looks, how I and my breath smell, etc.  I bring it so I don't have to worry as much.

2 words: "cleaned up"

Picture #10:  My iPod:  I bring my iPod with me everywhere I go as well.  I feel that it makes the walk a little quicker and better if I listen to music.  I love music in general; I'll listen to pretty much anything.  I also hope to become somewhat of a DJ with my friends.  I have already began mashing songs together with some programs I have.  My iPod allows me to listen to all sorts of music, and listen for songs that I could mash up on my laptop.  Not only can it do all of this, but it can help me with my mood.  If I'm sad and want to listen to a sad song, I can do that with my iPod.  If I want to play a song to pump me up before a match, I can listen to my iPod.  If I am mad, and need to vent, I can listen to metal songs I have on my iPod.

2 words "mini me"

Blog 6

While reading the article Miller and Cardiff, I really enjoyed learning about the pieces they made with sound, and others such as the Dark Pool.  While reading this, I was very interested to see what the Dark Pool looked like, so I googled it.  It wasn't exactly how I pictured it, I pictured more of an infinity room, a room where all of the walls are painted white, there is no source of outside light, and there is fluorescent lighting in the room to give the concept of infinity, with furniture in it.  I still thought the piece was interesting, but thinking of the infinity room gave me an idea.  I googled it, and saw one wonderful room.  It was entirely of mirrors, and had led lights, and glowing ball like structures hanging from the ceiling.  There was no outside light, but it gave the concept that you are floating in the universe, gazing over the billions of stars.  I then thought to myself that I needed to make this room when I have a place of my own.  I then thought about the article, and wondered what would happen if I added subtle music to this room, consistently playing.  Maybe chimes, a smooth but quiet bass-line, whispers of people with giggling, or even a choir singing a soft song.  This article really inspired me to make this room.
 I actually didn't read anything I disliked in this article.  I guess if I had to choose though, it would probably be the part about what they had to do for money in the beginning since they weren't very successful.

Map photoshop

When I attend class, I usually just walk from my dorm.  It's about a fifteen minute walk, but the class is in the stadium, and I do live on 10th avenue.  The fact that the class is in the stadium made my first day very interesting.  I wasn't exactly sure where the class was in the stadium.  I didn't even know the stadium had classrooms in it.  My first class on Wednesday is macroeconomics at 9:10 am.  After this class, i decided to walk over to the stadium in an attempt to find this class.  It took me a while, I found the door on the east side of the stadium pretty quickly, but the inside turned into a labyrinth of hallways and classrooms.  Around 10 minutes after entering the stadium, I found the class, and returned home to kill an hour before coming back.    

On my way to class, I like to look around at the scenery campus has to offer while listening to my iPod.  Most of the things i tend to look at are in the picture above.  My dorm is the residence on tenth, and as I walk out the doors, I look back at all of the windows on the north side of the building.  I'm not exactly sure why, I just think that they are cool.  The next thing I walk by is Mirror Lake.  This is where I like to look at the scenery, whether it's the seasonal lights, the lake itself, the people sitting around the lake, or the Mirror Lake ducks.  This explains my next picture.  One of the inhabitants of Mirror Lake is a duck, who also happens to have an afro.  Personally, I think this is hilarious and every time I see this duck it makes my day that much better.     After Mirror Lake, I walk by Thompson Library.  It is usually pretty crowded at this time of day, and I usually just try to trudge through.  Finally I get to the stadium, and get to the class.  

Most people would wonder how this is a map, but for the path I explained it's pretty cool.  It follows an "O,"  starting with my dorm and finishing up at the stadium.  I chose to make the map follow the state of Ohio.  I am from Minnesota, and thus it is the final point of a map when I'm coming back to school.  I chose to put the block O as a map for my map, which to follow, and Brutus in the center just because I thought it would look cool, and he is mostly seen in the stadium.

Nipple Jesus

I personally thought the Nipple Jesus article was very interesting.  I would have a similar reaction to the picture as Nick would, at first thinking it was a beautiful picture of Jesus  then realizing it was made entirely up of nipples, I would be offended.  However, that same question, "Why" would drive me mad.  I would need to figure out why it is made up of breasts, and not pictures of, say, more appropriate things?  The answer the artist gave though made me laugh, and I do agree with what she said, that art is creating something to get a response.  Very similar to the other artist we covered in class, I do not remember what his name is, but he made all of the pictures of the beautiful birds attacking each other.
Although this article may have changed my view on some pieces of art, I feel that even though her intentions were pretty funny, the picture of Jesus suffering on the cross is a very spiritual and important symbol to many, including myself.  Seeing someone take something that important to you, disgracing it with profanity, then videotaping responses and calling it intolerant is a dick move to say it politely.  She was taking a worldwide symbol of religion to over 1 billion people, and making it up of profanity.  Any of those one billion would immediately be offended once realizing.  I wouldn't go as far to call them intolerant if they are a religious person.  In my eyes, it would be like making an american flag out of pictures of catastrophic acts of terror in american history, pictures of soldiers killed in combat, and or pictures of crime, prisons, etc.

Ono

I personally like how the author started this article, with how Yoko Ono's art is.  I also thought the two schools of art idea could be really helpful.  People today focus a lot on personal appearance, and thus are really self-conscious.  People need to see the beauty inside of them, and around them, and stop worrying about the outside so much.  I also thought that, "using the negatively, positively," was pretty funny.  Overall, I thought this article on Yoko Ono was pretty interesting.
I did think that how confusing and inaccessible Yoko Ono is, and how her art is, "out there," could be a problem.  I have to admit, the first paragraph sounded pretty sweet, but when I read that she put her dead husband's smashed glasses as one of her album covers', I thought that was pretty weird, and frankly, a little upsetting.

second 10 pictures

Blog#3

I thought that Walker had some interesting points in his article.  I like the discussion on Barlett's rules, how Barlett had a system of rules, then she would try to find a way to break them.  I also liked how they said rules can be derived from really anything a student does, ranging from habits to social order such as taxes.
A problem with this article that they actually state is that students are constrained by school and the classroom for time, and money, which will affect the quality of the artwork.  However, i feel that school and class really could inspire students to make art.  Inspiration could arise from funny stories in class with other students, or just from learning about subject matter.
First off, I thought that picture in the beginning of the article was pretty funny.  With the different things you could cut and paste, it could make it a funny cartoon picture, leading up to a racist portrait.  I also liked how artists discussed the painting, "The group of teachers offered an interpretive conclusion about the painting: even with hair picked and adorned with a necktie will never outrun the connotations of the images with which he has been identified."  I also thought the interpretation of "Booty Camp" was interesting.
The interpretation of Booty Camp was one problem I found that applies to society today.  I feel that there is too much sex in advertising, with women wearing skimpy outfits and such.  It almost makes you disregard what the ad is for, musical talent, given it is a little overbearing.

Here are 10 random pictures i took for this blog.

Blog 2: 3 articles

    I liked a few things about the reading, "Kidd."  I thought it can be useful to use the techniques of making A look bigger than B, such as making A out of focus, or overlapping A over B, or even just changing A to be bigger than B.  I also thought it was cool that they mentioned flatland, which is surprisingly an interesting story about dimensions.
     Now, I thought it was a little confusing about how it started, and how it sort of strung things together.  Talking about viruses, then where we read, etc etc, made me think, "What is this actually about?" but I started to get the picture after 2 pages.
     For the reading, "Hickey," I thought it was interesting and useful how the author talks about rules that used to  liberate us, begin to govern us.  Such as with the Jackson Pollock dripping remarks.  It was once frowned upon, then it exploded into many works of art.  I also thought it was cool how the author related basketball to art, and rules in general.
     One thing I found problematic with this article is the idea it proposes about liberating rules begin to govern us.  Even though I thought it was useful to know, the idea of this, and not just in art or basketball but in countries, could be problematic.  Look at our country, where we started, and how far we've come to now.  There have been many changes in the laws of our country, and I have even heard older people ask where their liberties and freedoms have gone, and the more important question, where they are headed in the future.
     In the reading, "Weschler Uncanny," I thought it was interesting that they talk about the face, and milk and how hard it is to create with computer animation, and make it look relatively realistic.  I origionally wanted to help design video games when I came to The Ohio State, and changed my mind since we do not have a graphic design major.  However, I understood the extreme challenges of making digital faces.  With so many emotions, it was nearly impossible to do, but new technologies now and new graphic engines enable us to make more realistic faces, and characters in general.  I remember playing Halo 4 for the first time in the beginning of November, and the graphics in that game were insane.  Not only had the designers captured emotion to make the faces look realistic, but even the slightest of eye movements that people have when they look at you, or are thinking are evident in this game.  It was pretty crazy.
      One thing I find problematic about this article is the amount of work it explains in detail to do good digital work.  It makes me a little afraid of this course, but I have faith in our teachers ability to teach us well, and to understand that this may be our first digital art course ever.

about me

Hey my name is Michael Anderson, and I am a sophomore logistics major at the Ohio State University.  Currently, I am enrolled in 4 classes: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Digital Art, and Computer Science and Engineering.  Even though most people would say that economics and cs&e are boring, I seem to be enjoying them so far.
One thing about me is that I am a very active person.  I always am up to play any kind of sport.  Throughout high school, I played tennis and Frisbee, but also played basketball, baseball, and football for recreation.  I also love to do outdoor activities.  One of my favorite things to do is go fishing.  I have been fishing since I was in fourth grade.  My family never really liked fishing, but I have since inspired my dad (given he was the one who would have to take me) and now he enjoys it about as much as I do.  The top five fish I like to fish for are: 5. Panfish.  Panfish include sunfish, rock bass, bluegill, and pumpkin seed.  They do not get very large, and because of their relatively small size, do not put up too much of a fight.  4. Smallmouth bass.  Smallmouth bass are related to the largemouth bass, the differences being their colors, and how far back their mouths go.  3. Largemouth bass.  The largemouth bass is found on almost every continent, and is the same completely around the world.  They are agressive, and have been seen to weigh over 20 lbs in some places.  2. Walleye.  I love to fish for walleye.  Walleye usually bight very early in the morning, and late at night.  It depends on the cycle of the moon.  When fishing for walleye, you need to look for dramatic changes in depth, since walleye like to live around areas of pressure change. Walleye can also grow to 30+ inches.  1. Northern pike.  The northern pike is my favorite type of fish to catch.  They can grow over 60 inches, weigh more than 60 lbs, and are extremely agressive fish.  They normally attack creatures that wander into their territory, so a common way to fish for the northern is to troll for them.  Trolling is where you drop a line in the water off the side of your boat, let around 100 feet of line out, and drive until you get a bite.  It is not uncommon for northern to leap out of the water when hooked on a line.  That is why the northern is my favorite type of fish to catch.